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Subject: Re: Date parsing always returning the month of January
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:20:00 -0800
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On 2/29/2012 8:46 AM, laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Java 6.  Hoping someone can see the simple error I have
> missed.  I'm trying to parse a date.  I have
>
> 		final String formattedStr = "2012-03-01 01:30:00";
> 		final String format = "yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss";
> 		final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
> 		try {
> 			ret = sdf.parse(formattedStr);
> 		} catch (ParseException e) {
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		}
> 		String retStr = ret.toString();
>
> The value of "retStr" is "Sun Jan 01 01:30:00 CST 2012".  In fact, the
> month of the date string is always getting converted to January, even
> though above it shoudl be March.  Where is my date parsing going
> wrong?


First, good example, even though I could have used a complete compilable 
one.

However, the answer is simple, and I'm going to have to ask you to 
re-read the documentation for SimpleDateFormat.  You missed the meaning 
of one of those letters.